Impact of fuel strikes -> driving on Continent

scaldybelt

Anynody experienced or heard any stories of problems in getting fuel on the Continent in recent days/weeks?

I see the problems in Spain in the big cities due to the truckers strikes and fuel shortages at the pumps.

Heading over to France for 2 weeks this weekend, and thinking about bringing a few jerry cans in the trailer as a backup.

Ponster

No problems in France so far. The Gov are working with the oil companies to fix the price of petrol and for the oil companies to absorb increases up to a % percentage.

It's illegal AFAIK to transport petrol in Jerry cans in cars at least.

Also this site is in French but it gives the price of petrol in all the countries stations : http://www.carbeo.com/

scaldybelt

Thanks for the link - v.useful.

The Jerry cans will be empty until I suspect that there's potential problems in which case I'd be filling them prior to heading home from Bordeaux area. They'd be in the trailer at all times- I'd happily take my chances with the law....it's not like trucks/boats blockading ports is legal either. Desperate times and all that.

Ponster

If you have 'net access I can reply here if there's any news of shortages during the 2 weeks.

Tabnabs

Definitely a good idea to bring some empty jerry cans, looks like Britain is the latest country to have the threat of full running out.

Ponster

Dyflin wrote: »

Definitely a good idea to bring some empty jerry cans, looks like Britain is the latest country to have the threat of full running out.

Isn't it just Shell though so less than 10% of the stations in the UK ?

scaldybelt

Thanks for the offer Ponster, but I don't intend on touching a laptop for 2 weeks!
I've got some family over there who have said they'll text/call us if there's any planned strikes in the news. In the meantime, I'll top up when I reach half a tank each time.

Tabnabs

Ponster wrote: »

Isn't it just Shell though so less than 10% of the stations in the UK ?

They appear to be picketing the oil terminals and now some other tanker drivers are refusing to cross the picket line. Spain had no tanker strike, but panic buying soon far outstripped demand...

No problems from a driving holiday perspective in Spain, just back from there and had no issues.

Caoimhín

Im just back from Lisbon. All flights out of Lisbon airport are diverted to Porto because they have run out of fuel.
Luckily Airlingus filled her up in Dublin and had enough to get home again.

parsi

On our first trip to France in 2000 we were laughing at the queues to buy dear petrol at the stations. Then we got hold of a paper and saw that there was a strike on so we managed to get a fill and then confined ourself to base for the week except for necessary drives to shops. We changed location after the first week and enroute we saw a petrol station that was open but Mr Gendarme looked at our guage and where we were going and (rightfully) declared that we had enough fuel.

We had enough to get there but would have been very tight going back to Roscoff but luckily the strike ended a few days later.

On the day after the strike ended the tankers were rolling (unlike the uK which took yonks to move) and the town near where we were staying got a delivery so we joined the small queue. In front were two English cars and they were chatting - one crowd were semi-local and the others were visitors. It was a Sunday so the pumps were card-only so no use to us. What amazed me was that when one of the uK people noticed that it was card only they were disappointed and the other semi-local said to them - oh yes they only work on French cards , luckily we have one. But they didn't offer to let the others use it which struck me as mean....